And another thing...!

[nuranar]

We're officially at 3 weeks above the 100° mark, and still counting.  Y'know, when the heat gets like this, everyone starts rooting for it to continue to see if we can't set a few records or two while we're at it.  Why not?  We're already at the 5th-longest streak, closing awfully fast on the 4th and 3rd.  The 2nd might even be achievable - 29 days.

 

Note that the longest record is from 1980 - 42 days. That's 6 weeks at 100° or more.  And what the record books don't show is that while the 43rd day hit only 99° or 98°, the 44th day onward was right back up to 100° or more.  That year accumulated 69 total days over 100°.  The last for the year was September 16; and the highest for the year was the still-standing record of 113°.

This summer pales in comparison (hallelujah!); our high so far is only 105°, and honestly quite a few days we've hit exactly 100° and no more.  But we might as well hope for some second-best fun while we're at it. :p

Still no rain.

Comments

[christylee.livejournal.com]

It's been way hotter out here. Plug in Santo on weather.com and scope out the 10 day.

[fancyfrocks.livejournal.com]

Dang that's crazy. How do you deal with the hot weather?

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

That's brutal. I don't think I've ever endured sustained heat like that, even in India. Vizag was brutal, to be sure, but the humidity had alot to do with that.

[rvqavalon.livejournal.com]

*gapes*

No seriously.

*GAPES*

I couldn't do it. I would do myself an injury. *doffs cap.*

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

A/C is a fact of life. It was a serious shock when I figured out that everyone didn't have a/c in their homes and cars! I mean, sometimes they break in the cars or run out of illegal effective coolant, but living without it? Crazy. That said, Dad was working in an un-air-conditioned shop during the whole of the 1980 summer. They had to cover stuff up when they left or the tar melting down through the roof would puddle on their work.

Other than that... we don't do things outside from about 10-6 if we can possibly avoid it. If we have to be outside, we stay in the shade. Sometimes have big electric fans outside, too. But when it gets to a certain temperature, fans don't help much. Really hot air that's moving isn't cooler than really hot air that's not.

Inside our a/c is set on about 78°. Any cooler and it puts a strain on the units.

We don't have easy access to a swimming pool, but when it gets this warm, and stays this warm, the water isn't refreshing. It feels like lukewarm bathwater. Pretty unpleasant when you want to cool off!

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

"Brutal" is a pretty good word. It's the sustained heat that really does it. That and not cooling off much at night. Our lows hover around 80°, plus or minus 2 degrees.

Our winters are wet, in humidity if not in actual precipitation, so they tend to feel colder than actual temperatures would indicate. Thankfully our summers are a lot drier, so the heat index tends to run only a couple degrees higher. It's still not desert-like, or we would be both recording even higher daytime temps and actually cooling off a lot more at night. You win some, you lose some. I much prefer 100° dry to 90° humid!

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

And I would be MISERABLE in your state from November-March, so we're even. ;)

[princess-mia.livejournal.com]

I wish we could send some the rain that we have had to you all!